2006-09-14 22:55:38 · 8 answers · asked by Perfectly Flawed 5 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
In terms of osmosis, damp salt is a very highly concentrated solution, so when salt is placed on a land slug, water from inside the slug quickly moves out through the skin to try and balance the salt concentration inside and outside the body. The result is that most of the water is sucked out of the slug and it dies. Sea Slugs and land slugs have much the same salt concentration in their blood as sea water, so Sea Slugs in sea water are ok. However if you keep sea slugs in an aquarium, and you don't look after the aquarium, often water will evaporate and the salt concentration in the aquarium water will rise and the animals will die. Not quite as dramatic as covering a slug with salt, but the same basic principle.
2006-09-14 23:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by jazzyjd5 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snails and slugs react in the way they do because they have a "living" outer skin. Your outer skin is a layer of dead cells. They cant feel pain or heat or cold. You feel these sensations because the dead cells transmit the heat or cold to the deeper recepters located in your living skin. If you knock some of the dead cells off by a fall onto concrete or on the road or whatever, you expose the living skin of your body and any irritant will be instantly and intensely felt. A frog has the same living skin as a snail or slug and reacts the same way to salt.
2006-09-14 23:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by Wedge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I quite dislike slugs, but I do love snails - never let them near salt, pls! Be humane.
2006-09-14 23:09:37 · answer #3 · answered by nelabis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tried salt on wound? u'll get the answer.. well jokes apart...its just that salt is acidic..& snail body has not much of a thing called skin..all that acid salt is taken into the body direct..as one feels on a wound..well guess so!!
2006-09-14 23:09:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hate those! salt absorbs water. slugs and snails have lots of mucus in their body...
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argh!!!
okay, i give up figuring it out.
2006-09-14 22:59:26 · answer #5 · answered by Inquirer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer above me is right on the money. Salt absorbs there moisture and inflicts horrible pain on them.
now, answer my Q plz
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2006-09-14 23:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. But I have heard putting beer in the garden will get rid of them too. I'm not sure if they drink it and it kills them, or what.
2006-09-14 22:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chcuda9... UR WRONG.... salt is just salt... it isnt an acid..
Yes but salt does absorb mucus and makes them dry.... so u know... they just die...
2006-09-14 23:25:08 · answer #8 · answered by infect111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋